OCR MEI S1 — Question 2

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypeMultiple binomial probability calculations

2 A game requires 15 identical ordinary dice to be thrown in each turn.
Assuming the dice to be fair, find the following probabilities for any given turn.
  1. No sixes are thrown.
  2. Exactly four sixes are thrown.
  3. More than three sixes are thrown. David and Esme are two players who are not convinced that the dice are fair. David believes that the dice are biased against sixes, while Esme believes the dice to be biased in favour of sixes. In his next turn, David throws no sixes. In her next turn, Esme throws 5 sixes.
  4. Writing down your hypotheses carefully in each case, decide whether
    (A) David's turn provides sufficient evidence at the \(10 \%\) level that the dice are biased against sixes.
    (B) Esme's turn provides sufficient evidence at the \(10 \%\) level that the dice are biased in favour of sixes.
  5. Comment on your conclusions from part (iv).
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